Curt and Kim DeWitt are members of the Pioneer Memorial Church in Berrien Springs, Michigan. But for the last six years, they have experienced the blessings and challenges of life at Maxwell Adventist Academy (MAA) near Nairobi, Kenya.

Kim and Curt had just spent the weekend climbing Mt. Kenya, elevation 16,300 feet, with 26 students and some faculty from MAA. Returning home, they were eager to listen to a taped sermon from their home church. Dwight Nelson's sermon titled "Counter Culture-TV!" had been recently mailed to them by Kim's mother, Beverly Pottle.

Kim remarked, "Several months prior to this we had been convicted to get rid of our television antenna, which of course meant that we would no longer have access to any television stations—just videos. The conviction was so great that on that very day we took it down and gave it to a national worker on campus."

After listening to Nelson's sermon, they once again felt convicted to rid their home of the television and VCR. In fact, they decided not to hesitate at all. After lunch, they put the television in the back of their Pajero (4x4), said a prayer that God would lead them to a place that needed it, and headed out. The DeWitts drove into Ongata Rongai, a town about two kilometers from their house and felt impressed to go to the main Adventist Church there.

As they drove up, members were just finishing a late-afternoon meeting and two church elders were standing by the driveway. "We greeted them," Kim said, "and told them how we had been impressed to give our TV and VCR away." What the DeWitt's heard next brought tears to Kim's eyes!

Church members had recently installed a brand new satellite dish at the church, which would enable them to download 3ABN programming and purchase tapes to show. But they had no television or VCR. "They had just been praying that the Lord would help them to raise the funds to purchase one so they could begin an evangelistic series," Kim explained.

The elders could not believe the DeWitts had everything they needed in the back of their 4x4! They assisted the DeWitts in carrying everything to a back room, and church members gathered in the sanctuary for a prayer of thanksgiving. "It was nothing short of a miracle," Kim exclaimed.

Kim shares, "God's hand is still moving in a mighty way! I just want to affirm Pastor Dwight Nelson and say that what might have been considered a simple sermon in Berrien Springs, Michigan, reached us all the way over the ocean and into the heart of Africa! By allowing the Holy Spirit to work, we were also touched, and in turn a whole community will now have a chance to be 'radically' changed for Christ!"

Kim concludes, "We have no idea where our 'words' will go and the difference they can make when we let Christ use us! All we must do is allow ourselves to be a vessel for Christ, and He will use us in ways that we cannot even begin to fathom."

Curt and Kim will complete their term of service in Kenya and return to the United States in June 2005.

Diane Thurber, Lake Union Herald managing editor as shared by Kim DeWitt, MAA Cafe Director and Travel/Visa Coordinator